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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. BARNES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING AND BOXING MATCHES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1905.

Application filed August 5, 1899. Serial No. 726,253.

To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making and Boxing Matches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the same.

The present invention is a machine of novel construction adapted to make and box friction-matches in unlimited quantities and by a continuous operation, the said machines requiring only to be actuated by a suitable source of power and to be supplied with the materials of which the matches are composed and boxes to receive them.

The general plan of the machine as a whole may be gathered from the following briefoutline of the series of operations which the elements are constructed and organized to perform.

Any suitable. material, such as wood in the form of alongthin sheet of veneer of a width determined by the special construction of the machine or in two or more such sheets, is fed into the machine and by suitable cutters is divided up longitudinally into narrow strips suitable for the making of splints for the matches. The said strips as they are fed forward are cut crosswise into splints of the proper length, and these latter are caused to enter perforations in aseries of carrier-bars, by which they are conveyed to a receptacle into which their ends are dipped to receive a coating of paraffin and to another from which their ends receive a suitable composition. They are then conveyed, while drying, to the point at which are located the mechanisms for detaching the matches from the carrier-bars and depositing them in regulated quantities in boxes.

In connection with the means for ejecting the matches or detaching them from the carrier-bars is arranged a device for receiving the matches. as they are detached and depositing them in boxes ready to receive them, for removing the boxes as soon as they are filled to a predetermined level and supplying empty boxes in their place.

The mechanism which I have devised for carrying out the several operations above de- TIL."

scribed involves numerous features and combinations, which I understand to be new in this art and original with myself, and in these reside the invention or improvements for which I now seek protection by Letters Patent.

I shall describe the mechanism as a whole by reference to the accompanying drawings, indicating the novel features of the same as far as possible in the description and claims.

Figure l is a side elevation of the complete machine for making and boxing matches. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the mechanism for cutting and feeding the splints. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the same mechanism, taken on the line a a of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the splint cutting and feeding mechanism with parts omitted to exhibit underlying devices. Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of the same mechanism as seen from the left in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the same mechanism as seen from the right in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is an enlarged view, partly in section, of a portion of the carrier-bars with the mechanism for feeding, cutting, and inserting the splints. Fig. 8 is a front view of a portion of the carrierbars. Fig. 9 is a section and front elevation of the guide-bar through which the splints pass to a reciprocating cutter-bar. Fig. 10 is a detail in front elevation and section of a device for directing the match-strips into perforations in the carrier-bars, the parts being shown on an enlarged scale. Fig. 11 is an enlarged detail of a portion of one of the rotary cutter-heads for forming the strips. Fig. 12 is a similar view of a modified form of cutter-head. Fig. 13 is an enlarged sectional view of the track for the carrier-bars, taken on line 6 Z) of Fig. 14c. Fig. 14: is a plan and part section of a portion of the track and mechanism for propelling the carrierbars. Fig. 15 is a sectional view of the paraffin-tank and means for dipping the splints. Fig. 16 is a longitudinal sectional view of the composition tank and rolls. Fig. 17 is a partial cross-section of the same. Fig. 18 is a top plan and part sectional view of the mechanism for ejecting the matches from the carrier-bars. Fig. 19 is a front view of the carrier-ba'rs as they appear in passing in front of the ejectors. Fig. is a vertical section on lines 0 c of Fig. 1-8 of the ejecting mechan- 

